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Interesting Dickson novel. A product of its time.
Nothing special, but worth reading if you're a Dickson fan. Interesting shades of his future books on the development of human culture in the face of technology.
Usual YA fare. Definitely sucked me in to the story.
Pittacus Lore: The power of Six (2011, HarperCollins)
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the …
When Raoul Penard's starship returns to Earth--two hundred years after it disappeared--with his mind and soul somehow merged into the …
This was an awesome book! One theme is near future military operations in unsettled parts of the world (like the Middle East). Another theme is what it's like for someone to be a front-line soldier when they have a family with grown children, and happen to be a woman. I read about the book on Scalzi's blog (whatever.scalzi.com/2017/06/21/the-big-idea-linda-nagata-2/) and it sounded really interesting. I couldn't put it down. The action keeps going from start to finish.
The pacing is fantastic. It never starts to feel rushed. The author always makes time to talk about the world around the characters and she gives a feel for different places in the world so that you can see what's happening in detail. Many books get caught up in the action in the later parts of the book and the level of detail drops, but that doesn't happen here. It's just as …
This was an awesome book! One theme is near future military operations in unsettled parts of the world (like the Middle East). Another theme is what it's like for someone to be a front-line soldier when they have a family with grown children, and happen to be a woman. I read about the book on Scalzi's blog (whatever.scalzi.com/2017/06/21/the-big-idea-linda-nagata-2/) and it sounded really interesting. I couldn't put it down. The action keeps going from start to finish.
The pacing is fantastic. It never starts to feel rushed. The author always makes time to talk about the world around the characters and she gives a feel for different places in the world so that you can see what's happening in detail. Many books get caught up in the action in the later parts of the book and the level of detail drops, but that doesn't happen here. It's just as engaging and vivid in the last chapter as in the first.
The books deals with lots of different relationships between people, and those these are folded into the overall narrative without making the book seem slow and without distracting from the main plot.
Oh, and by the way, it's a kick ass sci-fi consideration of what the mercenary profession will be like 50-ish years from now. Or maybe sooner.
While fighting monsters that break through the barriers surrounding Apex City, Joy and her pack of magical hounds begin finding …
She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.
Her …
In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to …
Ugh. I'm 20% through and giving up for a while. Slogging through exposition and wishing for some character development.
Light reading. I read it because it was cheap on BookBub. Good pacing. Moderate amount of kissy face and smoldering looks. Get it on sale.
NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept …
Light reading. Good pacing. The inner dialogues were a little juvenile in places. But overall it didn't detract from the book too much.
I was reminded of Neil Gaiman's prose a little bit. A teanaged girl goes into her exboyfriends room: "It smelled of Boy. It smelled of warm skin and socks."
Here's another quote.
Behind an iron fence an old lady watered a brown garden of tortured, flowerless plants begging for a quick death while her toy-sized dog looked up as if to ask what the hell kind of sick game she thought she was playing.
It's a story about the quest for power and what it does to people. And what odd and wonderful and terrible things they do along the way.
"Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite …
Light Reading. Good pacing. There is some frequent arm and leg breaking in the first part of the book, which made me a little unsettled, but it tapered off. Good sci fi action.
This was a great book, I can't wait for the next one.
I really enjoyed the world building, the strong characters
and the plot. I wish I could write a longer review filled
with superlatives and praise. The other positive reviews
here are accurate.
